Contemplating Madness

About Me

My name is Joshua. I am a physics major aspiring to be a theoretical physicist. I find immense beauty in mathematics and as such post, mostly reblog, a lot of mathematics and physics. However, this still remains a personal blog, rather than being aimed at one particular subject.

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   cab1729:

   Is Chaitin proving Darwin with metabiology?

   Algorithmic information theory (AIT) allows us to study the inherent structure of objects, and qualify some as ‘random’ without reference to a generating distribution. The theory originated when Ray Solomonoff (1960), Andrey Kolmogorov (1965), and Gregory Chaitin (1966) looked at probability, statistics, and information through the algorithmic lens. Now the theory has become a central part of theoretical computer science, and a tool with which we can approach other disciplines. Chaitin uses it to formalize biology.

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    Want this so bad

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    Unnecessarily sensationalist book title aside, this is interesting. Also it’s legit (on the theoretical computer science...

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    I WANT THIS BOOK PLZ KTHXBYE.

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